Notebook: Pacquiao confirms talks for Mayweather rematch
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Eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao confirmed this week that he is indeed in talks with five-division champion and fellow Hall of Famer Floyd Mayweather for a rematch that is contemplated for April in Las Vegas with Netflix as the broadcaster.
“I’m open (to the rematch with Mayweather) and there’s an ongoing negotiation,” Pacquiao said on Wednesday at a news conference in Manila in his home country of the Philippines, where he attended a boxing card commemorating the 50th anniversary of Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier III, the “Thrilla in Manila” in October 1975. “I am speaking (to my team) every day. If that negotiation goes well and the fight materializes then we will announce the rematch.”
In one of most anticipated fights in boxing history — five years in the making — Mayweather handily outpointed Pacquiao in a welterweight title unification fight that also determined the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world and the king of the era in their May 2015 blockbuster in Las Vegas.